Matt Moore plays his part well as Dolphins top Bills

Dolphins' QB enjoys the view of three straight wins

MIAMI GARDENS — - Here, on the fun side of the looking glass, where the scores are nonsensical in a giddy way, Matt Moore was telling the story of the touchdown pass to Davone Bess.

Everyone was replaying some moment from the Dolphins' 35-8 dismantling of Buffalo. Lex Hilliard told of his "unbelievable" recovery of a blocked punt for a touchdown – the first such play for the Dolphins since 1990.

Reggie Bush spoke of the "amazing" way the defense played in yielding no touchdowns for the third straight game – the first such streak since 2008.

If you get the feeling every quote sounded like the billboard from the latest George Clooney movie, you understand what it's like to be on this side of the mirror. A rainbow even stretched over Sun Life Stadium at one point Sunday.

For seven games to start the season, skies were darkening, locusts were massing and the apocalypse was nearing. Now, rainbows. Don't explain it. Just enjoy it.

Which returns us to Moore, who is the short-cut version of how all heaven has broken out the last three games. In this victory stretch, Moore has thrown six touchdowns against one interception and completed 70.8 percent of his passes.

Chad Henne never did that. He never came close, if you want to get right down to it. This will make some people conclude the better quarterback was on the bench to start the season. Maybe so.

This already is making other people wonder if Moore is The Answer for a franchise with quarterback anxiety for more than a decade now. To which the proper answer again is:

Just enjoy the rainbow. Enjoy the moment. Smile.

Don't even think too far ahead about what this means in being in draft position to find tomorrow's quarterback. Just think how four times the Dolphins entered the red zone inside the Bills' 20-yard line in the first half. And four times they scored touchdowns.

That makes eight touchdowns in the past 10 red-zone appearances for a Dolphins offense that made previously an art form of kicking field goals.

Moore threw three of Sunday's red-zone touchdowns. His favorite was the final one, a little 4-yard pass to Bess that put the Dolphins up 28-3 just before halftime.

"We had run a simplar play and missed it down there before,'' Moore said.

So this was the kind of play that tells how times have changed. For one, the Bills blized up the gut. That kind of play resulted in Henne getting hurt in San Diego.

"Daniel Thomas did an unbelievable job picking up the linebacker, giving me some times,'' Moore said.

Then there was Bess. He made sure to find the end zone (remember Brandon Marshall a yard short against Houston?). He found an open space.

"Then I was just hoping Matt saw me,'' Bess said.

Seeing the field, not locking on any one receiver, seems to be a quality Moore has developed. Buffalo decided to take away Brandon Marshall, who for weeks was Moore's go-to target.

Marshall had one catch Sunday for five yards. That was it. It was so few Moore had to have some words with him on the sideline. Moore also spewed some emotion at the coaches when a play came in late. That's the job of quarterback. So Moore played his part on the sideline, too.

With Marshall double-covered, Moore completed four passes each to Charles Clay and Reggie Bush. Two to Anthony Fasano. And Bess, who hadn't been thrown to in the end zone all year, was found this Sunday.

"Made the throw, made the catch, he was in,'' as Moore said.

Moore has shown he's trustworthy veteran under contract. He's made people forget Chad Henne. But has he made anyone forget Scott Mitchell?

Mitchell replaced the injured Dan Marino in 1993 and did so well for a stretch a debate raged whether Mitchell was the future. How strange that sounds now.

Moore is the answer or isn't. The Dolphins are a good team or they're not. None of that was really the issue on Sunday if you ached through the start of this year. The issue was simply this:

Enjoy the rainbow. Enjoy the moment. All the other stuff will take care of itself as this season plays out.